I was contacted by a staffing agency for the position. I mentioned my current salary and was told that we can go ahead with the application. After a couple of interviews, I even sent the recruiter an email mentioning that salary expectation was not being discussed. Received the following reply verbatim - "Typically they will call you to discuss the parameters and get your buy in with the numbers so everything flows right through." After 3 months and multiple interviews, imagine my surprise when HR makes a offer that is below what I was making in my current job. There was no point in going ahead with the offer. The HR Rep advised that in future I should ask for the salary parameters in my future searches in the beginning itself! Really!!! The team that I was interviewing for seemed to be nice and professional but the HR and their hiring process left a bad taste.